GRE Word List
RIDDLE
a mystifying, misleading, or puzzling question posed as a problem to be solved or guessed : conundrum
The meaning of the word riddle is a mystifying, misleading, or puzzling question posed as a problem to be solved or guessed : conundrum.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| genuflect | to bend the knee |
| depravity | a corrupt act or practice |
| objective | expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations |
| impuissance | weakness |
| shard | a piece or fragment of a brittle substance |
| galvanize | to subject to the action of an electric current especially for the purpose of stimulating physiologically |
| kneel | to position the body so that one or both knees rest on the floor |
| malleable | capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers |
| suffuse | to spread over or through in the manner of fluid or light : flush |
| ruddy | having a healthy reddish color |